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Mark Sottilaro schrieb: > Hitchhiking only works if someone's got it together to buy a car. > Couchsurfing only works if someone has spent their money on a couch > (and a place to keep it in) > > I'd love to live in a magic fairy land universe where everyone just > did the work they felt was "important." I bet that land smells like > a pile of garbage... I bet that land would be a pile of garbage. I bet against it...! We are all humans and as such part of communities. It works much easier than you might think. If you don't want the pile of garbage its you who would do the work because you would feel that work is important. If you are pissed of others who just throw the garbage around it would be you who'd kick those in the ass, because you feel that it is an important work to teach those ignorants etc. Those who are good at kicking become policemen, and those who are good at cooking become cooks. (The reason why garbage collectors are paid bad is a political phenomenon which hopefully will change in the future...) > Who wants to do that job? Would the building I sheet rocked exist in > that land, because let me tell you I did not feel important doing > that job. It did, however, give me the ability to buy my own couch, > car and rent a place to keep them in. You did work somebody else thought is important, and gave you enough money to buy your own house/couch/car/etc... If he didn't pay you, you would have had to build your house yourself, because that was important to you, but working for someone else was easier and more effective in this case... If you never hitchhiked or hosted some stranger, you simply don't know about this area of social exchange that is not a deal. You don't know how much you can give which is not accountable in terms of money value. You can't buy it for all the money of the world... But its essential for our life. I need it as I need food... (I bet you do know about it though, but sometimes we forget that deals are not the most important thing in life...) > While traveling in Japan last September it struck us that the idea of > "menial labor" didn't really exist there like it does in the west. > It seemed like everyone was proud of their job and worked hard at it > whether is was fast food worker or hotel manager. It made me feel > ashamed of our culture where your self esteem seems linked to the > "quality" of job you have and not the quality of work you do. The problem is that we do jobs, instead of following a profession. Japanese workers are a part of a community (their company) and not just doing a job. You might not believe it, but in the west this exists as well... > Here's a question I have. If your tour can't even support itself in > terms of travel... why? Wouldn't you be better off finding local > gigs and distributing your music all over the world via the internet? > Just wondering... Daryl is following his profession, it makes more sense to go to the people who appreciate his music. If the mountain isn't coming to the prophet... Stefan -- Les Ondes Mémorielles---------x-- --_____-----------|-----------|-- --(_|_ ----|\-----|-----()------- -- _|_)----|-----()-------------- ----------()----------TJ Shredder